When Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal perform at the North Beach Bandshell this Sunday, they’ll be doing so under the cover of a shadow of nativism and xenophobia that has engulfed the United States. The celebrated world music duo will be performing as the first featured artists in The Rhythm…
When singer Dan Lotti and guitarist Mike Sivilli first gigged around Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005, they didn’t want to take themselves too seriously. So they chose a name that made them laugh: Dangermuffin. But something unexpected has happened over the past decade.
Florida’s status as a metal-music mecca relies on a perfect storm of time and location — those being the late ’80s and Tampa. Broward County has had some acts, but Miami’s scene has been overshadowed by more popular forms of danceable stuff.
Nigerian-born British vocalist Jacob Banks is one of soul music’s brightest rising stars. That’s ironic considering he was never interested in a music career or even soul music, for that matter. “I started singing through my friends, just asking me to do shows here and there,” he says. I was never much of a musician… My friends pushed me into it.”
Too few female performers mar an otherwise exciting Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival lineup.
Unless you’re adept at scalping tickets, you might be out of luck if you had a hankering to see the Kings of Leon, Usher, Wiz Khalifa, and other acts at this weekend’s Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Florida’s largest camping fest has no more tickets, sponsors announced Wednesday afternoon. It is the second year in a row for the gathering that’s held two hours north of Miami in Sunshine Grove.
With their DJ battle live at Sidebar this Saturday, March 4, DJ Premier and Pete Rock will match the hype of the recent Swizz Beats and Just Blaze battle.
Miami Music Week, Winter Music Conference, and Ultra Music Festival will attract DJs, electronic musicians, and producers from all over the world. There will be everything from easily digestible EDM to heady techno. If Art Basel is the art world’s cultural apex in the Americas, then MMW is Mecca for dance…
If football is life, the New England Patriots give breath to every living Bostonian. And Ken Casey, the raspy voice behind the Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys, is no exception. “I feel so great about the Pats winning the Super Bowl,” Casey brags of the Patriots’ victory over the Atlanta…
Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during which he has played with, among others, fiddler Vassar Clements, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, klezmer clarinetist Andy Statman, and close friend Jerry Garcia — the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist.
Cuban singer Danay Suarez was born a poet. She doesn’t speak in sound bites, as many singers in the digital age do in interviews. Instead, she answers questions about her music and message with all the thoughtfulness and seriousness of someone giving a speech at the United Nations, occasionally sprinkling…
For the past two years, Steve Aoki and the Dim Mak crew have held an epic Miami Music Week bash at Nikki Beach. Last year was a particularly huge milestone for Aoki’s label. It celebrated its 20th anniversary with a mega-lineup that performed for 17 hours.
The past 12 months have been tragic for Parliament Funkadelic. The grandmasters of funk have seen two members of their collective fall. Last June, keyboardist extraordinaire Bernie Worrell died of cancer, and just this past January, their former musical director, Junie Morrison, passed away. But those expecting the group’s show…
With only days to go, general-admission three-day passes to the 2017 Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival are sold out. Still available, though, are the four-day Portal Passes for $279. It’s a bargain compared to Florida’s other mammoth festival, Ultra, whose tickets normally retail for about 400 bucks apiece. So what…
Kings of Leon, Usher with the Roots, the Lumineers, and more than 100 other artists are set to take the stage at the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival March 2 through 5. That’s cool, but another weekend of concerts won’t change the world no matter how hard you dab on the haters. Nope, come Monday, the world will continue unbothered by your epic dabs.
There’s nothing worse than the wait time between your favorite artist’s announcement of new music and the moment your friend surprises you with an illegal download link. In the case of hip-hop artists Fabolous and Jadakiss, we’re still waiting on the link for the joint project. “Freddy vs. Jason” was…
This coming weekend, the center of Florida’s entertainment universe will be at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival far from the city. The four-day event brings together some bright young things and a slew of classic acts. However, for those poor souls left behind during this musical rapture, we have…
The New World Symphony’s home in Miami Beach has seen many interesting performances over the years. But none of them matched the event Borscht Corp., III Points, Coral Morphologic, and Animal Collective, among other musicians, threw together for Friday night.
February has been filled with nothing but love from our hometown rappers and artists.
Lucinda Williams talks writing about heartbreak, loss, and politics.
You can’t overstate the enduring influence of Laura of Miami, AKA Laura Sutnick, on the local alternative dance music scene. From her tenure as a WVUM radio DJ to her event promotions company Nightdrive and Klangbox.FM internet radio station, she has championed lesser-heard sounds for more than a decade.
Angel Olsen is caustic and refreshingly candid. Coming off a relentless tour schedule in support of last year’s My Woman, she offers the same honesty that has endeared her to audiences since her breakthrough release, 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness. She describes her involvement in “Our First Hundred…
